Kidney Transplantation

Northwestern Memorial Hospital offers one of the premier kidney transplantation programs in the country. In 2013, the Kovler Organ Transplantation Center at Northwestern Memorial performed 220 kidney transplants, making it the largest and most successful transplant program in Illinois and one of the largest in the US.

Additionally, we have one of the largest living donor kidney transplant programs in the country, and performed 122 such transplants in 2013.

Appointments

In
early December of 2014, the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS),
the organization that manages the kidney transplant waiting list, will
start a new system of allocating (or giving out) kidneys to candidates
on the kidney transplant waiting list.